Monday, November 2, 2015

Starting Off With A Lie

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is beginning his term as Speaker of the House in typical Republican fashion: lying through his pearly-white teeth.

Newly elected Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he’s willing to work across the aisle with Democrats but won’t do immigration reform with President Obama in his final 14 months in office.

“The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue, because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself. Presidents don’t write laws. Congress does,” the Wisconsin Republican said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to Obama’s executive actions this year to ease immigration policies.

“The president’s proven himself to be untrustworthy on this issue.”

This is crap.  The Republicans are deathly afraid of touching any kind of immigration reform no matter who writes it because they have already invested so much time and effort demonizing immigrants to the point that it has become The Issue for them.  It’s what launched Donald Trump’s campaign, it’s what makes the base fork over the dough, and any attempt to repair the system will be seen as caving in to sanity, and you sure can’t do that and win the primaries.

2 barks and woofs on “Starting Off With A Lie

  1. W tried. St. Ronnie tried. Obama has tried doing it alone. The untrustworthy ones sit in the House of Representatives. Nothing rallies the base like demonizing The Other even if their great-grandparents were The Other.

  2. You expected Ryan to tell the truth? I know you didn’t. BTW, your blog looks lovely and is easy to read, and use.

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